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Life & fun · July 7, 2014

Animorphs

Watch shapes evolve into different shapes.

Animorphs launched on July 7, 2014 with 62 votes, #1,008 of 2,263 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

An interactive visualization of virtual creatures that morph between forms using Bezier curves and a simple genetic algorithm.

This Emergent Mind project, created by Matt Mazur in July 2014, uses Bezier curves and a simple genetic representation to create virtual creatures that smoothly morph between forms. Named after the book series about teenagers who can transform into animals, it explores how curve-based drawing and gene-by-gene interpolation can produce fluid shape transitions. Each animorph is drawn by connecting multiple cubic Bezier curves together, filling the resulting shape with a solid color, then mirroring it to create a symmetrical creature. Four preset genomes are included: Man, Fly, Octopus, and Bat. Each was hand-tuned to resemble its namesake using 13 chromosomes of 6 genes each. You can also…from emergentmind.com

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